Maison Mantin, a mansion left for 100 years, reopens as a time-capsule museum

A mansion sealed in a time warp for more than a century to respect its eccentric owner's dying wishes has been reopened as a museum, offering a glimpse into 19th century bourgeois French life. Curators say the Maison Mantin in Moulins, central France offers a unique freeze-frame of turn-of-the-century France in all its grandeur and strangeness. What precisely lay behind the imposing 19th century mansion's locked doors and shuttered windows had been the subject of intrigue for decades.